To be held on January 26 and 27 at the Mary M. Gates Learning Center in Alexandria, Virginia, the event will focus on several key topics including maintaining a biometrics focus on maximizing mobile and multimodal technology innovation at the border and ports of entry.

The educational and training “Town Hall” forum will attract thought leaders and key policy-makers across DHS, DoD, IC, federal and state agencies, industry and academia for actionable discussions and debate.

“We have created a summit that will bring together a variety of stakeholders in order to build out two days of discussion and debates that tackle many of the areas involved in enhancing effective and efficient intelligence sharing and operational capabilities amongst the border security community,” said Monica Mckenzie, senior partner at Defense Strategies Institute.

Topics will include countering violent extremism through improving the collection, analysis, production and dissemination of intelligence; biometrics focus on maximizing mobile and multi-modal technology innovation at the border and ports of entry with confirmed sessions on Entry/Exit program, FBI CJIS, DRDC Canada, OBIM; pushing out homeland security beyond the U.S. borders; and Maritime Domain Awareness focus.

Other topics will include targeting technology that improves intelligence sharing and real time situational awareness of the threat environment; combating illegal trafficking, narco-terrorist threats and TCOs through strengthening joint investigations, intelligence and information sharing, and S&T cooperation; and advancing Joint and Interagency Task Force initiatives.